Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific

by Stuart Daggett

[371] San Francisco Examiner, October 30, 1894.

[372] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3299, 3300, testimony J. C. Stubbs.

[373] Railroad Commission of Nevada v. Southern Pacific Company, 21, I. C. C. R. 329, 349 (1911).

[374] A copy of this contract is printed in the San Francisco Chronicle of May 7, 1879.

[375] San Francisco Call, August 1, 1878.

[376] Report of the Committee on Corporations of the Assembly of California, 1883, sup. cit. See also testimony taken before the Senate Judiciary Committee of the legislature of California in considering Assembly Bill No. 10 concerning the Regulation of Railroads, 1884 (in Appendix to the journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Legislature of the State of California, 25th Session, Extra).

[377] Railroad Commission of Nevada v. Southern Pacific Company, 21 I. C. C. R. 329, 346 (1911).

[378] Letter written by John T. Doyle and printed in the Nation, December 8, 1881.

[379] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3333-34, 3358-59, testimony J. C. Stubbs.

[380] The special contract system had the bad effect of repressing complaints from shippers. Mr. Overheiser, member of the State Grange, farmer, and resident of California since 1849, testified in 1884 before a committee of the California Senate as follows: